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A Board Game to explain the Internet without the Internet

A group of learners at Mary Waters High School has found their way to the computer lab after school to create a board game to explain the Internet for people without Internet. Anna and Ron Wertlen are going to brainstorm with them, play games, discuss the Internet and get abstract and active. If you want to join this project, please, send us a request. Everyone else is very welcome to follow this project by reading and commenting.

We found that a team game, highlighting communication and connectedness between people and topics would be the cornerstones of such a game. Most project participants thought that such a game could be very well represented on a tablet PC, which allows intuitive scrolling and dynamic playing capabilities.



Several learners also highlighted the good vs. bad battle going on in the Internet, where spammers, hackers and pornographers are pitted against regular users and child-friendly organisations to win over minds of people.

You will be surprised! It will be even better than Barricade!

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1. Tools that can be used in a board game

Last week we made a list of tools that can be used in a board game. This is what we found:

  • dice
  • tokens
  • symbols
  • barricades
  • clocks
  • action cards
  • answer&question cards
  • pencils and paper
  • no board
  • forces or lives

We discussed some ideas of what they could represent. Here, you can follow a discussion about what our group would like to use in the board game and what for. Please, add your opinion to the forum discussion. We want to hear everyone's ideas!

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3. Kuhle Jebese

we made lots of  board games and some were good and some were not so good because they just weren't clear but the important thing is that we had so much fun.and Miss Anna gave us lots of tools that we can use such as the ones listed above.

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4. athenkosi .dyonashe

we can  always show  people that board  game  are  fun.
 

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5. Good things about the Internet to Highlight

Popular board games thrive on simplifying the matter at hand and making caricatures (or cartoons) of topics. They focus on cliches.

In a forum, we have asked everyone to think of things they think are good about the Internet. We will then try to build these aspects into the game!

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6. Vuyolwethu bam

We like to play the board game becausa we like to play it

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7. imivuyo ranuga:mary water's awarenet project

Awarenet project-is about developing computer skills and fun.We sometimes create board games its similar to arts and craft,we are like testing our skills of using our hands things like writing,drawing,designing and evaluating.

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9. sihle

The internet is great because You get to search information and you can also play great games.

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11. about awaenet

awarnet it's where a person develop's computer skill's such as knowing the disadvantage's advantage's of the internet as well as creating boardgames that is one of the interesting part of the awarnet project.

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12. imivuyo top student.

topic: top studentin your class-that is very easy because you only have to work hard and try to do your best in everything you do like your behavior,language,walking and offcause even eating.just take my advice and i assure  you wont go wrong.

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13. Hlumani Mcuba

what is good about internet:people can communicate with each other.Bad things about the internet:People can say bad things about each other through the internet.

If you have a board game with lines joining the dots and players on the dots, then..

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14.

a board game is some thing that you can have fun playing with it and the graet thing about the internet you have many board games

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15. imivuyo top student.

topic: top studentin your class-that is very easy because you only have to work hard and try to do your best in everything you do like your behavior,language,walking and offcause even eating.just take my advice and i assure  you wont go wrong.

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16. Sinazo and zekhaya

The internet is bad because they allow children to go on porn sites although they are young and all they could do is just put a password that contains a ID number so that the children wont get to porn easily. The good thing about the internet is you can search all you please and that gossip flows very fast so you can catch it any time without using your airtime.

Thirty seconds cards

They work like this ; they give out clues it has a board and a set of cards and every time you move you and one person have to guess the clues on the cards.

So we could change the porn site and the gossip into a thirty second game the only thing that will be changing is the name of the game of the game to CHANGING THE INTERNET IN THIRTY SECONDS













 



















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17. sinazo msibe changing the internet while playing snakes and ledder

THE bad thing about the internet is people comment about things they don't know lieing ,saying bad things about people.Changing the internet in thirty seconds that will be fun.We could even make a board game and play it as dice with snakes and leder on so that it can be more exciting as ever .This will be how we play it,a person will role a dice and check the number they rolled and will play maybe they got three they will think of ways to change the lies and bad rumour about people thats what i think .

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18. zekhay a

I think that the tablet is a great device that adults or children can use for their daily device and the  tablet can be educational and fun for kids and kids can learn a lot from the tablet some might abuse the tablet  by adding bad comments or spreading lies about celebrities and posting bad blogs about the world well something can change that we have thought of a way to change the internet in 30 seconds the game will get people talking 247/365 all day and posting good comments some will be bad but we  do not really care as long we got people who will play or shop for the game



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19. athenkosi .dyonashe

pc are very fun to use  and  you can have fun  playing  board  games with  friends and develop  skill  

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20. SIHLE BOOI

The tablet pc is a great thing coz you get to touch on the screen and it is easy you have everthing infront of you for explain the keyboard is right at the bottom of the screen and so as every thing you need.

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21. SIHLE BOOI

The tablet pc is a great thing coz you get to touch on the screen and it is easy you have everthing infront of you for explain the keyboard is right at the bottom of the screen and so as every thing you need.

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22. what is the most difficult thing to do?

to me is to make friends and  drawing  and mmm decorating and things like  riding a bicycle,skating board playing pool fighting.

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by: Ron Wertlen
on: 2012-09-06 11:21:10